EXERCISE 31. ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT SƠ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC LẦN 2- 2016
(130866) Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your
answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
THE BOOK IN THE 21
st
CENTURY
How many times in the last hundred years or so have people talked of the
imminent death of the book? Films were an early threat because they were so effective
at telling stories in a visual way. Next there was radio, (26) stepped
into the mid-twentieth century and provided such an alternative to books as drama,
documentaries and discussions. When television arrived, many people believed that it
would finish the book off. Nowadays, (27) the threat by TV, the book is thought to be
endangered by computers and the Internet, and by other technological attractions (28)
theCD and the video game, too.
Surely there are now reasons why (29) book ought to be dead, or at least very badly
injured. If so, why does it not show proper respect for these reportedly less
literate times
(30)
die out? There is
clearly
more
than a single
answer to
this question.
Firstly,
we have more
leisure
time
than we(31)
to, and
people are generally living longer, which means there is more time to do more
(including reading books). As
(32)
as this, there is the strength of the book
as a tradition. We are all too dismissive of traditions in our modern world, but
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